Little Joe Pye Weed

Sounds ideal !

Do they grow wild with you? I have seen the tall ones growing on the sea cliffs not far from here - didn't know what they were for a while but only learned Joe Pye Weed from you - I only found them as Eupatorium which is harder to remember. I wonder why they are named after Joe Pye?

Thanks Stera I thought I recognized this but not the name ,I have it , as you say we call it Eupatorium ..

Yes that's the same plant. I would recommend you get the dwarf (Little Joe Pye Weed).The others get over 10 feet tall - nice on the sea cliffs, but too tall for the garden. I just planted this last year so I can't tell if it's invasive or not, but I really like it so I don't mind if it spreads a little. I don't know why it's called a weed.

I found this little snippet on Wikipedia:

'Joe Pye (Jopi in the Native tongue), an Indian healer from New England, used E. purpureum to treat a variety of ailments, which led to the name Joe-Pye weed for these plants.[10] Folklore says that Joe Pye used this plant to cure fevers. Folklore also states that American colonists used this plant to treat typhus outbreaks.[11] The author Hemmerly writes that the Indians used Joe Pye Weed in the treatment of kidney stones and other urinary tract ailments.[12] A peer-reviewed study suggests that Joe Pye of plant fame was a Mohican sachem named Schauquethqueat who lived in the mission town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts from ca. 1740 to ca. 1785 and who took as his Christian name, Joseph Pye.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrochium

A lot of interesting information there Paul ,I don't think I shall try using it ...

Interesting. Yeh, not sure how to use this for fever, but I'll just go to Walgreens - the pharmacy.